• National Bestseller!


• More than 225 tried & true favorite recipes for "almost homemade" dishes...busy cooks will save time by using convenience items and prepared ingredients!


• Chapters for every meal occasion...Beat-the-Clock Breakfasts, Simple Soups, Salads & Sandwiches, Fast-Fix Sides & Breads and Dinner Express


• Oh-So-Easy Entertaining and Piece-of-Cake Desserts...delicious appetizers, snacks and sweets treats made in a snap


• Nearly 200 of our best time-saving tips and handy tricks


• Exclusively designed by Gooseberry Patch


• Hardcover, 240 pages


• 9-1/4" x 6-1/2"

Featured Tip:  To prepare crispy bacon easily; try baking it in the oven. Place bacon slices on a broiler pan; place the pan in the oven and turn the temperature to 400 degrees. Bake for 12 to 15 minutes; turn bacon over and bake for another 8 to 10 minutes.

Between sports practices, work schedules and after-school activities, what's a busy mom to do? In Simple Shortcut Recipes, we've sped up all of our favorite dishes for you by using grocery-store convenience products such as refrigerated bread dough, frozen pasta and other prepared items from the deli and bakery...guaranteed to save time, money and your sanity!

There's also nearly 200 helpful tips for shopping, cooking, serving, cleaning and organization, plus lots of no-stress fun ideas for sharing food with family & friends. Special sections include an updated listing of common kitchen substitutions and a second easy-to-use index of recipes organized by type of convenience food used. And, as always, our signature hand-drawn illustrations and plenty of Gooseberry Patch charm are sprinkled on every page.

For all those hurry-up times that demand dinner in a dash, last-minute bake sale goodies or quick snacks for drop-in guests, Simple Shortcut Recipes is sure to become your go-to cookbook! Hardcover, 224 pages. (9-1/4" x 6-1/2")